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  1. arse on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1
  2. JPSpan is an implementation of the 'Ajax ' idea on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax · · Score: 1

    I don't think Ajax is an actual 'product'. It's just a term for the technique of accessing the model from a javascript/DOM based viewer over an xml based request.

    So JPSpan would be classified as an implementation of the Ajax approach.

  3. Re:Computer Potatoes on Brain Controlled Computing a Reality · · Score: 1

    No, no no. Now that we have wireless, people could simply move around while brain-controlling the computer stuff. Imagine - blowing shit up on teh fps *while driving* to work ...

  4. Re:"All software should be free" on Examining Some Open Source Myths · · Score: 1

    untrue. i have spoken to people in the meat of the publishing industry and many of them pay 'IT people' to 'look under the hood' of, say, Quark, and find work-arounds for that crap - especially when it comes to doing things that were deemed 'outside the scope' of the application. my point being that these are 'average' publishing companies trying to be competitive.

    Your average company is an even worse customer. They may look to Linux for the perceived cost advantages, but rest assured that they do _not_ want to pay a team that looks under the hood and fixes stuff. People are more expensive than Windows licenses. Paying a team to open the hood of all those packages and fix things is far more expensive than just getting a packaged closed solution from Microsoft, Sun, IBM, or whoever.

    until the cost of 'waiting' for changes/mods to be satisfied by the software company becomes a concern.

  5. Re:The Right To Stay The Same. on The Anarchist in the Library · · Score: 1

    The Natural Universe already takes its toll on every single word. Entropy is a tempest. As human beings, if there is one thing that our cultures has produced, is the evident desire to be something. The right to be extends to authors. If I have published something, I have a right to not have that thing be constantly changed and altered by the world at large.

    hee hee. a right granted by whom? the Natural Universe? Cultures may express the desire to 'be something', but from what I have seen, the successful ones are the ones constantly being changed and modified by constituents. The stagnant ones, I seem to observe, are dying, or already dead, and we read about them in history books.

    People who have something to say, have a right to be heard. That right includes the stipulation that, if you are relaying what someone has to say about something, to someone else, you have a responsibility not to alter that work.

    If we are to have something of a moral stance on this, I contend that responsibility is to include the source in the 'bibliography' (so to speak), and then extrapolate as you will (making it obvious that it is a mutation).